We really are getting brought up-to-date on the First Amendment. First, Mack Taylor sounded off on the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” a few weeks ago and, this past Sunday, Jean Robbins, an attorney and Senior Fellow with the American Principles Project, had a guest column, which originally appeared in The Center, an Atlanta-based free paper like the Metro Spirit, opposing Governor Nathan Deal’s veto of HB 757, the Free Exercise Protection Act.

Just as the Supreme Court thought it had resolved the abortion debate 44 years ago, so apparently Gov. Nathan Deal thought he had put to bed the religious-freedom issue with his veto of the Free Exercise Protection Act (FEPA) on Easter Monday. But Georgians of faith – many of them Republicans – are reacting with righteous indignation to the governor’s surrender to the forces of intimidation.

And as the governor grows more defensive, he strays further and further from the truth.